Mr. Sammler's Planet (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

by Saul Bellow

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Viking Adult, 1970-01-30. Hardcover. Very Good. THE VIKING PRESS. BCE Minor chipping to dj. some staining 1/8' at bottom of dj on front. clean tight and no markings

Book summary

In Saul Bellow's 1970 more-bitter-than-sweet novel about alienation and moral decay, Artur Sammler, a 70-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, spends his days quietly and pointlessly in New York. An intellectual and academic, he lectures occasionally at Columbia University but spends most of his time drifting about the city, trying to make sense of an utterly foreign world--a world he despises and despairs of. On the eve of the moon landing in 1969, Sammler can envision the possibility of a new world but is unable to ascertain if it will be a better one--or the end of civilization as we know it....